Some have had to fight for their independence; others, like Papua New Guinea, have had it thrust upon them. No outcome of the process is necessarily superior to another. What is certain in respect of the PNG-Australian relationship is that we are two very different peoples. We in Australia...
Australia-Papua New Guinea relations, 1980-1990: independence and change After acceding to political independence in 1975, Papua New Guinea's (PNG) overall relations with Australia were generally described as dependent. The relationship was described as dependent because PNG's reliance upon Australia ...
Joe Biden had planned to become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Papua New Guinea in May last year, in a sign of the region’s growing strategic importance in the power struggle between the U.S. and China. But Biden canceled the visit to deal with a debt crisis in the U.S...
Nationalism and imperialism – Australia’s ambivalent relationship to Papua New Guinea and the Pacific islandsAustralia, unlike New Zealand, has never had any clear consciousness of its relation to the ocean of islands that constitutes the Pacific. This is despite its own imperialist involvement, ...
Monthly water balance observations on seven perennial evergreen plant communities revealed a linear relationship between the ratio of community evapotranspiration to pan evaporation (Ea/Eo) and the water store for that month (precipitation, P, plus extractable soil water, Sext, at the beginning of ...
Japan and EU sign new security and defence pact 17:11, 01-Nov-2024 AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA SIGN BILATERAL SECURITY AGREEMENT - JOINT STATEMENT 07:37, 12-Dec-2024 UK AND IRAQ SIGN SECURITY AGREEMENT TO TARGET PEOPLE SMUGGLING GANGS AND STRENGTHEN BORDER SECURITY CO-OPE...
in partnership with the US in Australia and Papua New Guinea, it has repeatedly asked the UK, France and other Western countries to pay more attention to the "freedom of navigation" in the Indo-Pacific, especially in the South China Sea, and to increase their military presence in the ...
"we do not intend to compromise our relationship with china, or with any other country, for that matter," marape said, a reference to papua new guinea's foreign policy of "friends to all" amid rising tensions between beijing and washington in the region. austra...
our practical engagement was demonstrated earlier this year when two ADF medical officers were attached to the PLA-Navy hospital ship Peace Ark and worked closely with their PLA colleagues to provide medical support during the Peace Ark's medical assistance mission to Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea....
Aboriginal languages are spoken by the native people of Australia andTorres Strait Islandswhich are located betweenNorth QueenslandandPapua New Guinea. Linguists believe that most Aboriginal languages share a common ancestor. The exact timing of the arrival of the ancestral language in Australia has be...